Dear BloPop;

I can quit you now. 
What have I learned?  Why, I have learned that I am not cut out to post every single day.  My brain tends to dry up when I try to do that.  That is what I have learned. 
I wanted to do the letters.  I started off strong.  Turns out, I don’t really have [...]

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Things that irritate the snot out of me:

April 29, 2008, the temperature at 5:30am was 37°.  This is unacceptable. 
Lots of political ads on our local media right now.  The one that is currently getting my goat is one from Hillary Clinton, talking about gas prices and what she plans to do about it.  The ad says “Hillary gets it.”  Bullshit she gets [...]

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Late, late, late… but by golly here I am.

I guess at this point it is entirely possible I will finish my commitment to post every day this month.  Which is to say, I can be stubborn. 
Testing for Spawn today took all day.  I mean, literally, the kid was testing from 8 this morning until 3 this afternoon, so it was like a full [...]

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The good news is, I didn’t end up in the trunk of a car, headed for Tijuana.

The really sweet young man who wanted my extra plants ended up having to work yesterday morning, so he sent his really sweet retiree father over to pick up my castoffs. 
I knew you’d be on pins and needles, wondering.  Or maybe hopeful I’d disappear and quit this insanity known as blogging.  So some of you [...]

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If I never post here again after today, assume something bad happened.

I put an ad up on our local Cragislist for free garden plants — I’m thinning my beds and hate to throw out perfectly good plants — and am supposed to meet someone at my house this morning to dig and divide.  The guy said he’s putting in a garden for his parents, so either [...]

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Stuff the stuff

My mother had one of those home parties last night, the ones where you gather with your friends and listen to someone’s spiel and buy things.  Because it was my mother’s party, I bought a candle, the cheapest thing I could find to buy in the whole deal.  Never let it be said that I [...]

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Who’s ready and who’s not.

I’ve just sent off registration for Spawn’s very first sleepover camp.  Granted, it’s only an overnight camp, but it’s still a camp.  Far away from me. 
Spawn has been having sleepovers for a while now, but all of them have taken place at my parents’ house.  This will be a brand-new experience for both of us.  [...]

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There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Apparently today is Secretaries’ Day.  Or, Administrative Professionals Day.  Because we must be PC. 
Listen, back when I was a secretary, or administrative assistant, or administrative professional, or whatever the hell else they call themselves these days, I didn’t care what they called it, just so long as I got a free lunch out of the [...]

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Happy Earf Day

Now go hug a tree. 
I’m not sure how I feel about all this Earth Day business.  I’m also not too sure what to think about carbon footprints (muddy footprints I understand) or global warming or the decline of frogs and salamanders worldwide. 
Speaking of declining frogs, Spawn’s frog declined permanently over the weekend.  I was beginning to wonder [...]

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If I had a million dollars…

There is a sizeable portion of my personality that is perfectly content to live in my own little protective bubble.  I am master of my own universe there. 
I spent a good portion of the day on Friday puttering about in the garden, a rainy, cool Saturday wandering around a garden center gathering ideas, and a [...]

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